The Nagasaki Lantern Festival during which the streets of the port city in southwestern Japan are illuminated with ...

Seventy years ago this month U.S. atomic bombs destroyed the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing a total of roughly 200,000 Japanese people in the world's first, and so far only, use of nuclear ...

On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, a second bomb fell on nearby Nagasaki. 140,000 died, but many of those who survived went on to lead extraordinary ...

‘After Christ’s example, I forgive my persecutors. I do not hate them. I ask God to have pity on all, and I hope my blood will fall on my fellow men as a fruitful rain.’ 26 Martyrs Museum in Nagasaki, ...

Ken Hirata, a 58-year-old former vice governor of Nagasaki Prefecture, has won the gubernatorial election in the southwestern ...

A blinding light like thousands of strobe lights — that's how Toshiko Tanaka described the morning, 80 years ago today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. On Aug. 6, 1945, the ...

Ken Hirata, a Nagasaki politician who last month suggested a ‘wait-and-see’ approach on the integrated resort (IR) issue, has won the local governorship election in that Japanese prefecture. Mr Hirata ...

NAGASAKI, Japan --The city of Nagasaki marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing Sunday with calls to abolish nuclear weapons and halt the Japanese government's push to loosen restrictions on ...

NAGASAKI, Japan — The southern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic attack that killed tens of thousands of civilians and left survivors who hope their harrowing ...

Kerry says "everyone should visit" atomic bomb sites, but W.H. seems to agonize. — -- President Obama is heading to Japan later this month, a trip that has the White House weighing whether he’ll ...